My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

When you violate the law of growth, your influence winds down, your progress gets arrested, and many more negative consequences...

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.

The doorway to success swings outward not inward.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.